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Microsoft announced that it will begin depreciating the Disk Cleanup tool starting in Windows 10 v1809, and in its place they are ramping up the built-in Storage sense feature originally released...

https://support.automox.com/help/week-in-review-release-notes-for-week-ending-8142020 Bug Fixes Display name for the Skype is consistent across different systems. (8/12) Enhancements The Patch Only...

What are most people doing as a best practice for organizing groups? We currently have 3 groups, User Laptops, Servers, Testing. This has worked fine for our needs except for the fact that worklets...

What a fun day to have a Citrix cluster! 😃 https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX279897

We just added in this checkbox to filter out software that we don’t patch, so that you don’t have to see those in the list when building a Patch All Except policy, for instance: Shout out to...

Have you ever needed to run a scan from the client side? There are times when you may want to trigger a scan from the device as part of an automation rather than from the console (or waiting for the...

Here is a worklet to assist with KACE agent uninstallation. The agent installation presents a few challenges, as it is a 32 bit installer, so it can be installed either in program files, or in...

Hi all, I have a desktop PC on which we installed Ubuntu server edition. I’ve just downloaded and installed the Automox agent, but in the console it says there is not enough disk space left. Since...

Hi all, I’ve ran into a weird problem where I randomly have Windows servers refusing to register in the Device Manager console. The MSI appears to be launching, but doing nothing. I’ve launched from...

Hey guys, Curious to know if anyone has come across an issue with Automox not grabbing the bios serial number after performing an agent installation? We have found that a few VMs in our environment...

https://support.automox.com/help/week-in-review-release-notes-for-week-ending-8072020 Bug Fixes Pressing Enter in the Create Organization form will create organization with name specified. (8/04)...

So I used Spiceworks in the past but meh… they’ve all but given up supporting it the way most companies support their products and the on-prem is dead. The cloud one just doesn’t do it for us either....

Hi All, im quite new to Automox and was wondering if you experts already collected best practices for creating worklets. For instance how can i write a proper output message to the activity log based...

I’m new to AutoMox and would like to know how to create a worklet that I can assign to a group of machines and schedule them to reboot on a monthly basis. Is this possible and how would I go about...

https://support.automox.com/help/week-in-review-release-notes-for-week-ending-7312020 Bug Fixes: Fixed issue with version scraping for Slack. (7/29) Fixed issue with Mac .14 where choosing “Now” in a...

Has a nice technical overview for how the platform works and a very spiffy diagram! patch.automox.com Technical-Solution-Guide.pdf 388.75 KB

Hey team, Just been having thoughts about worklets and some QoL features which got me thinking to post here and ask. We have found worklets are extremely useful for almost everything. We have been...

We get this question regularly, so I thought I’d put it on here to help people find the info. Certain of our supported 3rd party titles require that the app not be running for patches to be applied....

https://support.automox.com/help/week-in-review-release-notes-for-week-ending-07242020 What a good week of enhancements! Sometimes our week’s release notes are sparse because we’re heads down on core...

Attempting to check for the presence of the Microsoft Store App version of Skype. If present, run the Remediation (remove). The Worklet displays an Error status in the Activity Log, but I do not know...